[Novalug] Files not where

Nick Danger nick@hackermonkey.com
Tue Oct 22 19:49:39 EDT 2013


Generally you want /home/<username>/Documents, or /home/<username> as a 
location. "/home/Documents" is just weird. You can try to find your 
missing file with the below:

cd ~ && find -name Mapping\* -print

Nick


On 10/22/2013 06:07 PM, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote:
> List,
>
> I expect them to be.
>
> I think I made a mistake a long time ago. When I refer do anything with a
> file I look for it in /home/cmhowe/Documents/somewhere. That is how I set
> it up years ago. Shouldn't I have set it up as /home/Documents. If that is
> correct, is it feasible to move everything to /home/Documents/wherever?
>
> This is of less importance than the next one, which is:
>
> I have these two files I want to print. Consider the
> Mapping-the-World-three-Words-at-a-Time. To my great surprise it is not at
> /home/cmhowe.Documents. Can anyone tell me where to look? My file
> searching skills are not great. I would have to use grep, wouldn't I?
>
> Charlie
>
>
>
>
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